The evening world. Newspaper, March 15, 1906, Page 16

| | @athenes dy tho Press Publishing Company, No. 83 to @ Park Row, New York | / Entered at the Post-Ofice at Now York a Seccnd-Cinsa Mat! Matto: NO, 16.277. PLENTY OF LAW. | The discovery that there is no} lack of law to deal with criminality in high places is timely and should end encouragement to overcautious | prosecutors. The Supreme Court informs President Roosevelt that there is plenty of statutory authority at his disposal to enable him to proceed} against the trusts and the railroad] combinations, | In the matter of the insurance frauds former Chief Justice Parker of the Court of Appeals declares that the men involved “have them- selves furnished evidence of their ivenality, fairly corroborated on the witness-stand,” and that “the way to leonvict is to convict.” In a quiet way Judge Seabury also in the City Court has made the {discovery that to follow up the trail of jury-fixing leading to the doors of jthe Metropolitan is well within his jurisdiction. In view of this prompting from legal sources, it is to be hoped that thesitant and reluctant prosecutors will see their way clear to proceed with lenergy and despatch. Judge Parker’s pointer should be of special in- terest to District-Attorney Jerome. “The way to convict is to convict.” UThe law is there; the want is a man to apply it. Judge Parker does not “believe it would be possible in New York |to draw a Grand Jury which would not indict for at least two and per- ‘haps three of the most serious crimes known to the law” in the insurance jcases. Nor does he think “it would be possible by any change of venue {for any one of the men so indicted if fairly proven guilty to escape con- wiction before a trial jury in any one of the other sixty counties of the “State.” That is surely sufficiently explicit and direct. It blazes a path of ;Prosecution which a blind man might follow. It brushes away with re- ‘freshing brusqueness the halting doubts about “tangible evidences of | criminality” which Mr. Jerome has set up as fictitious obstacles in his way. | HALF FARE FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN. | Half fare for school children should speedily be granted by the Legis. | Mature. Even at half fare the school children would pay a good profit | over the actual cost of their transportation. To carry them in the Sub- | ‘way costs less than two cents, in the Elevated only a trifle more and on! the surface roads the half fare would be also profitable. | = It is not possible to build new schoolhouses instantaneously and to| B have at all times sufficient sittings in every neighborhood for its children | of school age. To reduce the rate of fare would enable the older chil- | Gren to attend schools where there is room and would relieve many over- | crowed schoolhouses. 1 Since all railroad franchises were In theory grant 4 i | ‘ ed solely for the | public benefit, the school children, as the coming public, are entitled to a! Share in that benefit. | THE TRANSFER SWINDLE, George Aneer paid his fare on an Eighth avenue trolley car at One Hundred and Fifteenth street and asked for a transfer ticket at One Hun-! ‘dred and Sixteenth street. The conductor refused it, following the new |" ask-for-a-transfer-when-you-pay-your-fare rule, It was not the con- ductor’s fault, Aneer was charged with snatching a transfer ticket. T: but suppose he had snatched one? Why not? It was his Property il- legally denied him. In any case he was arrested for larceny, | It is not exactly a joke to be arrested for larceny. Why has not Mr. Aneer, who was honorably discharged by Magistrate Baker yesterday 1 aabadly A Meter Query. | To the tor of with a rebuke to the company, a pretty good case for damages for f: arrest against the Metropolitan? aS “ ARRAY ae Rte aD Why has not any one to whom a transf. i lowing: I hay : now tn my good case 10 collect the statutory B50 danaecc eno Megally refused a owing: mse, ater ew Ie MIGHTSTICK and NOZZLE- Romance of Menhettan by SEWARD W. HOPKINS S his he denies; ANSWERS SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, Dave Lenox, a puliceman, falis in Bere | With the mental pabulum I expect- Pith a irl Whom ‘he has iacued frum a| 4 to get from that ale." ‘hotel fire and whose very haine he docs not |‘ 4 7 know, He mven her trom abduction andsa| 4% % that, my dear fellow," sata| fen, fight ensues in the course of whl ho | Garvin, leaning back in his chalr while Is wounded in th ck, “She begw Lenox! ne lighted his {rest to take her to a place of safety whore ccr- ts his fresh cimar. it is mv taio inyaterious perse ty i AB OE find und | night off. If there ts ay man earth murder het le conducts her to = ¥ i of @ Mra. of competent to supply vou with wits. Mra. Foby'a hi @ erin | brains, knowledge, anything, It is my- fugitive from justice. ‘The wom nelt."* f , to hide ami care for Lenox's wounded pro- 5 tegre ed vexed “(lenox discovers that the man who trea | Lenox looked vexed. * ' fous Kir has subse-| “I am not tn a joking mood.” he sald, “T am fn a blamed bad fix." "State the fix." “Mrs. Foby has Annie Buasten.” On aee- there | use. hot has tof disappeared with elt hon Garvin swung round tn his chair and patiox. icin stared. hidins-plac “Wonderful!” he said, “And now per- hape you will be kind enough to tell me who Annie Buasten happens to be, and why her disansearunce Foby promises vanished woman. —— CHAPTER pie se ea with Mrs, “I'm gcing to watch the yell: A Fitting Pair. “You } l enough. That giri*| NOUS® to-night—and all night. HEN Lenox reached hia rooms he} the girl vou called) ‘You have sald the very thing found there walting fo ga you shot?" wanted you to say," him. Garvin was a patient waiter, The one I thought I shot,"* “That ts to say"”— Ho had on the » which he ss ‘ome. We are setting at it. If] ‘That the thing for me to do is to a box containing one-half of the | 0 a much hotter I'll call out|do, And I am going to do." mumber of nally con- | rou y-three and turn the nozzle on} "That ‘8 you will report to the cap- tained, at of , two er} 7 notes | do 1 hough {t had been. 1 tell 1 a very contented am way to turn,” ull done up. I don't know , of ccurse.” you here?” was th 1 reste | since you know that your | You are a medal-of-honor meray Pe cahan nd that you did not shac I can't complain, being one 1 on know more. Give us the eport to the Com- E eiped himself} 1 will not i | began his 6: 8 “Well, what will you do?" fat dows and looked longingly Ave @ complete report | “You have asked some questions, In vitleref Bass's ale, us Interview with Jake Fo the first place, 1 cannot report, 7 I had one of them." he sata. | 8 occupied a good many minutes] now rse, that this knowing Tay wl vin smoked on with | things, i them to yourself, [ut diseovernt losed and nursed his injured| 4 very ming to a polleeman PB. was an unto Yot, it y yut what you know, you. put the {not Pu to do,’ sald Gar-|pring a mystcry to a satisfactory cont which folowed the to do, t |" the cold eyes of Lenox flashed a look pe compytent to supply that might mean anything a@@arvin, an, and then repos s will adjust themsely Garvin twisted in his chair, got one foot upon @ commer of the table, I fancy mat. “LETTERS from the PEOPLE Be QUESTIONS blew,| ~The Real Coal “Strike.” By J. Campbell C ory. . Sa8 Nez = & a RNIN / Hi \ f her vaice cultivated free of charge or at nominal rates, AMBITION. Bad Local Subway Service. To the Bittor of The Evening World: I entered the downtown subway sta- tion at Seventy-ninth etreet at 9.96 | o'dlock A. M., meaning to take the local | to Seventy-second street and then the local calmly sailed too, I abov 8) < ‘ express to Wall street, where I was due Can such meters be adjusted t| 3.°9.39 o'clock sharp. I waited till 9.12| O'etock and no local came, although In regards to thi gas. girls with red hai; furnish 1,00) feet for 80 cen-s? People’s Chorus, Cooper Union. To the Editor of The Fvening World: the rest of the collected crowd were A young lay, rich in quality of votce,| about tred out, along came a local at but of limited means, would Ike to in-| last. We hurred forward, but with a quire where In this city she can have| merry screech of the whistle our belated | | should ever have should choose one with red hair are |@ fire, rushed tn, with me.” “Neither do L” minutes. Garvin his hands, ‘I must work out fot quite alone, -00t are here.’” laughed. “Garvin, ' this thing out. @ plot that se of. If I report and we clean my reportin, Hi \ Tm ‘ . i y nN ( mM i Mid \\\ UT es “TH you. time. Wea shall “It seems to me ag9." shall we do?” “Bleep. arrup t and to belong elo the count ua po! to that o} ry as ‘The pig t @ | inat | the archives? Nit, ‘The neonle T saved will wav they were In no danger. It wasn't much of a fire, only enough tv get Insurance money to buy a few pr ents for Christmas. “On the other hand. I let {t burn. I rush to send in an alarm. Twenty- | three, with the usual warwhoop, rushes to the scene and finds me hopelessly groping in smoke and taking out chil- dren half dead and half naked,, who could have been taken out well and comfortable if I had done it at first. 3 am a great man. Another medal," Lenox was so Irritated he left his air and walked around the room. hen you would risk the lives and would alt down a plot. It would be where that mouse that fog and think. "Tam out,” It was rather Lenox to give, ‘Yarrup!"” said great clouds of smoke from his lps and twirled his fingers and thumbs as children do in games, “In other words, you mean that If I, Ja fireman of the city of New York, | while passing along a street, happen |to discover a fire and put out that fire, |I will recetve more credit than 1 would if I let it burn and reported, Nbw, you are wrong from my point of view, \ hew a ‘o-night.?’ es, night.” “Are you going?” Witheue further hous lett tie howseo ke a. pepe eee Ad tease Opie Look, of ot Berney. It waa al- ai wan LOPES the prettiest of any girls and have several expresses passed, Then, as Iand|a much clearer complexion, and if I | most time for him to retire, woman, and dled next day as the re- sult of asphyxiation.” “I don't see what that has to do There was a silence of about twenty Sat with his head bowed and resting in “I can't report to the Sergeant, the “aptain or the Commissioner.” he said Lenox glanced at the crutch and he said. # ems the most vile I ev the h will be set up will alar nobody, I the rebuke of the Commission Tet up of this mess and then 4 jarvin swung hie crutch against the: I'm wi we begin?” answored Leno: know—but I mean to-night. Gurvin ot ap on hin eood ed his crutch at Lenox.” ceman? Do you elulm are a dandy policeman, @ conmtable In some villag for scratching the village pump. wes a mouse in a room wi cat and the mouse you nd think aut a grent toy. aid Lenox, with a laugh, nun Garvin, “Quo Vadis?" T am going to watch the Fehon alex 8 is and all night,’ what?" said “Get a move on. yonte tin Evening World's Home Magazine, Thursdey Evening, Maren 13, 1966. A Group of Oddities in Picture and Story. CHINESE “athlete,” according to A American {dens of the word, was, until recently, unheard of. But ‘ Yankee and European Ideas are so rap- idly taking possession of the East that modern athletic sports have been at last instituted. Not in colleges, but in the army, The accompanying fllustra- tlon, redrawn from a snapshot, repre- | son on, “skipping” the station. The train was less than half full, thought It was a case of a jam fe, and that another traln must be the next local did How late was I? HIPPING CLERK. The Red-Hatred Bennty. ‘To thy Editor of The Evening World: 6 controversy about ir, I think they are a wife I certainly with red hair. Girls my Ideal. FRANK V. G. He saw put it out, saved a smoked and Lenox this problem alone. I and my other work jome kind of out in New York er heard | and ory tits the plotters @ to risk er, make lo th every ‘we began long What that nox. rder known all over Finest?’ You! You You ought to re. his disap) a mystery ou went, Get out of pleasant laugh fo inat ones Garvin seriously. It Is almost mide wo friend th right toot ine is with @ cru a It may be a very dangerous fire, ,| work forthe medal," he wald, ne. may involve loxs pf Ife If ft not} ‘To the deuce with the medal, There | jared, walkin, quickly quenched. T do that. Am i] isn't @ man in Twenty-threo.who woula | with his lett arm, in. a al honored? Docs my report that I put chance! of losing uny fe but ‘his a aight ae of sents @ Chinese soldier pole-vaulting. The loreal barracks are in the back- ground, a squad of drilling coolles in the middle distance, while in the fore- Ground the athlete 1s represented in midair, just clearing the bar. Two com- trades hold the uprights to prevent a general breakdown. No world-breaking tecords have yet been accomplished in chinese athletics, but the soldiers prove apt and willing pupila A scientist says of a watorspout that passed over a certain district in France fast sunimer: “Its pastage was accompanied with a sound which is described as Fesombling that of a battery of artillery drawn on the gallop over a paved «treet. At the base of an extended nimbus hung the reveracd cone characteristic of Phenomena of this kind. A strong wind wns then blowing from the south, Bouthwest. The waterspout was preceded by a storm and followei by a shower." Every one has A large number of heard of “the song tho buttons now in of the alren," and use, purporting to be not @ fow mI made out of horn to have lstened to or pone or ivory, {t. But you will are tn reallty made seldom meet any out of the common one who can give potato, which, when. an accurate de- treated with certain scription of the acids, becomes al- original siren. Here most as hard as is her picture, re- stone, The potato produced from a very rare antique painting. The siren of Neapolitan folk lore 1s a crowned woman in a flowing robe who rides a seahorse which has two feet and a fish's tall. On an old vase In the Naples ™museum she appears thus, riding above the rushing waters of the River of Death, having been sent to Hades by Neptune in search of Proserpine. A London actress, Mise Kate Cutler, 1s making an entirely new departure in ~ the use of the wutomobile. She has a part {n @ production at one of che leading theatres and during an interval of forty-five minutes that she {s off the stega she appears in a little one-act absurdity at another theatre. In order to make the necessary changes in her costume she has had an automobile bua fitted up a a dressing-room and in this compartment on wheels she makes the changes between theatres. This clever idea has tts disadvantages, however, for one night recently her travelling-dressing room caught fire. A second was secured, but ft refused to budge. The third, however, behaved Itself properly, and Miss Cutler arrived just in time to avoid e stage walt. Here !s a snapshot of an English yot- \ ing booth. The voter's head and shoulders, it will be observed, are hid- den, thus assuring privacy. A police- man keeps @ watchful eye on him ana sees that the vote is duly recorded. Writes a resident of Penang, in the Malay Peninsula: “I dare contend that I know a certain tree in Penang which has more devils in it for Its size than any other tree you can find elther in or out of Malaya. This tree was in my compound and the native servants were so frightened of It that they wouldn't sleep In the house. My boy Bekirl one night pointed out twenty-six distinct devils to me. That tree was a fruitful source of annoyance, for it used to drown folk on the beach, and the servante wouldn't pass under !t a: night. Anything dead that happened to be floating by. appeared to want to come ashore just there and roost In that particular tree. RAPID TRANSIT BALLADS. By Albert Payson Terhune. buttons cannot be distinguished from others save by an expert, since they are colored té sult the goods on which they are to be used and are as good- looking as a button of bone or, !vory. el | No. 4—A Broadway Car Idyl. Py WAS on a Broadway surface car—a blondined Also-Ran— | ‘The sort that makes us love the dear old Met-ro-pol-l-tan; Where folk cling long and tenderly to microbe-laden straps, And at each jolt win safety by a half a dozen “laps. Joe Spogg rode down to work one day and to a strap he hung, And lo! @ lovely maiden to that self-same leather clung. Their hands were near together, and whene'er they cleared a ourve Joe longed to touch that dainty fist; but somehow lacked the nerve, But all at once he noted with a throbbing, heart-beat wild, His fingers were encircled by @ loving pressure mild. He did not know it was a Strap-Bacillus that was teasing His brawny hand and causing that delicious sense of squeezing. The Microbe spied the maiden's hand end seized {t in tis grasp; ‘The girl grew pink and sprung @ yery creditable gasp. She dared not look—no more did Joe—but over each was atealing That pleasant “‘Ain't-you-awful! Like-to-know-you-better” feeling, ‘The stern conductor's shout of ‘Fare!" swift brought them back from heavent “Pull fare for thet Bacillus, gent! He must be over seven!” ‘They looked—and learned the truth—but now her eyes made Bpogg feel bolder; His hand found hers. Her Marcel Wave sought refuge on his shoulder, In far-off Harlem there's a flat all bright with new-laid paint, ‘Where there's 90 Little space to spare there's no room for complaint; ‘And there, where wedded life croons forth its grand, sweet g00-g00 song, A pet Bacillus gambols on a etrap the whole day long. ‘BINKS, THE BELL BOY. By Mark Madigan, 66 ONBY doesn't have much re-) gone to the Senate since, spect for itself when you come| ‘'They are all guests of the young to consider the people it goes| fellow with the money; he says he with,” said Binks the Belltoy, as he| brought ‘em along to help keep up an huddied up in @ corner of the bench | atmosphere. He says these New York. under the stairs this morning. ers have dropped so far betind by the “Wot's your kick?" asked No, 2%, as|Pace the Western fellows set that he oponed a cablogram from bls Lon- | they've all turned respectable, don brokers, “I've been put on ‘spectal service’ to a bunch from Butte, Montana, that ‘have the whole Fifth avenue side of the third floor, and the way they use money makes me wonder how it Js that any- body can consider it valuable, “This bunch,’ went on Binks, “is chaperoned by a young fellow who's Just made eighty-six hundred million or something Ike that by a scheme of ‘makin’ oopper out of second-hand brass, and he's got pictures of Monte Cristo hung all around the rooms, and every ‘once in @ while he stops an’ says to me: “That feller was a piker compared each morning without getting whole crowd made a pool to bet on @ horse racg the first day. ‘They won bet and then told me to thke the m and give it to phe hot lettin’ the chanibermasde dlatarb clean up the rooms before 4 o'cloak the afternvon, which J@ the only time nt should get yp, they say. f “One fellow was talkin’ and worth 0} “The: “He's got the hottest crowd with him you ever seen. One of ‘em was kickin’ to the manager this morrin’ because he couldn't run his automobile right up to his rooms, and asked him to tear|as It's got high sou out a couple of floors to make a run- abate pans a way up to his rooms, bund “Ono of the party is a ‘high hike’ card gent that has a chain of poker rooms in the company stores in Mon- tana. Another fellow is a heavy- weight profewsional scrapper, who | turned gentleman after throwin’. his last’ fight way ‘back in’ the 0's, and nother follow in. the) party, used to goln’ to ‘have a party lagt night had Seder the dinner “for Say ‘Order any old thing, e7out please aa " names to ‘ld ‘drink iS could drink an; and it made faa thao “They sald to buve the led mo #& ihund i fear